A 50-year-old man doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in the methane car parked in front of the family home, where a separation was taking place.
The incident occurred in via Puccini, in Golasecca (Varese), at 6 this morning.
The injured man suffered very extensive burns, is serious and was transported to hospital under code red.
The man's 42-year-old wife and 13-year-old daughter who desperately tried to help him were slightly injured and in shock.
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